ACTOR Natalie Portman is the star of Black Swan but there’s another striking aspect about the film. A print by Melbourne artist Sarah Amos, who also works in the US, appears in a crucial scene in a loft belonging to ballet director Thomas Leroy, played by Vincent Cassel
2.10 / Fortification Conversation with Kim Anno By Bruno Fazzolari January 26, 2011 Image: Sheer, 2010; oil on metal; 39 x 47 in. Courtesy of the Artist. Kim Anno is a painter, photographer, and video artist whose work has been collected by museums nationally and shown internationally. Born in Los Angeles, Anno is the chair of […]
By Iunia Ratiu Published in Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 1 Linda Sormin, Mine (i hear him unclip me / blood runs cold), 2010–11. Glazed ceramic; souvenir kitsch. Photo by Jeff Wells. Tell us about the work you exhibited at the Overthrown: Clay Without Limits exhibition. This installation, Mine: i hear him unclip me, explores forms and […]
Cornelia Schulz & Joachim Bandau at Patricia Sweetow By Dewitt Cheng Joachim Bandau, ”Untitled DC16,” 2010, watercolor on paper, 22 x 30”. The cosmic battle between modernism and postmodernism having finally drawn to an exhausted close, like previous doctrinal disputes (e.g., classicism v. romanticism, and representation v. abstraction. Think of Goya’s cudgel-wielding duelists), we can […]
Kenneth Baker Saturday, November 27, 2010 Schulz and Bandau: In recent pieces at Sweetow, Bay Area painter Cornelia Schulz goes deeper into a vein she has worked for some years: the multi-part shaped canvas as a foil for one of abstract painting’s potential weaknesses: the merely decorative. Around 1960, the traditional pictorial rectangle […]
Christopher Miles By Constance Mallinson October 7, 2010 12:53pm In his first solo exhibition, L.A.-based artist Christopher Miles, perhaps better known as an independent curator and critic, filled the gallery with 16 oversize “Noggins,” glazed stoneware “heads” mounted on stainless steel poles (all 2010). The initial impression was of a grisly house of horrors or […]
“∞the∞quantum∞field∞” (2010), Jon Brumit, Christy Matson, Sarah Wagner This large-scale interactive installation involves two sheep made of hand-woven conductive fabric, and is inspired by, and adapted from, the early LucasArts 1989 fantasy adventure game LOOM, wherein the only people surviving the apocalypse are weavers, blacksmiths and carpenters. Q – How much time do you spend […]
August 5, 2010 By ROBERTA SMITH In Varieties of Abstraction Roberta Smith writes: … An energizing place to finish is Markus Linnenbrink’s “NOMATTERWHEREYOUGOTHEREYOUARE,” a site-specific painting in the tiny storefront gallery Number 35 (39 Essex Street). Mr. Linnenbrink has covered the walls, ceiling and floor with narrow bands of vibrant color that all seem to […]
Chris Miles threw a great party at Acme on Saturday. Miles
showed many ceramic sculptures titled ”Noggins,” which are large
head-shaped fired and glazed things mounted on stainless steel
poles.
Open Space SFMOMA July 15, 2010 On Artist’s Artists by Renny Pritikin Julia Couzens, from her Maidment series, paper tape (2009) In a recent catalogue essay on the Sacramento painter Julia Couzens, I wrote that, “Most artists have clear signs on their shop windows as you stroll past on the street: Digital Photographer; Conceptual Sculptor; […]